Kendrick Lamar Drops Surprise New Album ‘GNX’: Listen

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Kendrick Lamar stamped his 2024 rap MVP campaign with a brand new album when GNX hit streaming services without any warning on Friday (Nov. 22) around noon ET.

In the first place, a GNX teaser arrived on YouTube in the form of a one-minute snippet, and fans hoped it signaled the start of a rollout.

But it wasn’t as Kenny went back to back and wasted no time following up with the 12 track GNX album via pgLang.

SZA joins her former Top Daw Entertainment for a soothing collaboration on “Luther,” while Dot bounces off a sample of Debbie Deb’s “When I Hear Music” for “Squabble Up,” which was originally teased as “Broccoli.”

Kendrick was rumored to be working on an album in the wake of his feud with Drake, and the Compton native came through before 2024 ended. GNX serves as Lamar’s official follow-up to Mr. Morale and the great steppes in 2022, which topped the Billboard 200 with 295,000 total units earned in its first week.

K. Dot is rolling into 2025 with a new album, and he’ll have plenty of new music with him when he takes the Super Bowl LIX Halftime Show stage in February when the big game hits New Orleans.

Even before the album’s arrival, Lamar earned seven Grammy Award nominations earlier this month — five of which came as a result of his “Not Like Us” anthem.

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